Conservative Treatment for Right Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in a Patient with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Mohd Al-Baqlish Mohd Firdaus; Nur Syahirah Abdul Rahim; Nurtasneem Rusdi; Nor Saadah Idris; Mohd Ridzuan Mohd Said; Imran Zainal Abidin

doi:10.1155/2020/8836627

Conservative Treatment for Right Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in a Patient with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Case Rep Cardiol. 2020 Jul 24:2020:8836627. doi: 10.1155/2020/8836627. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Mohd Al-Baqlish Mohd Firdaus^{1

2}, Nur Syahirah Abdul Rahim², Nurtasneem Rusdi², Nor Saadah Idris³, Mohd Ridzuan Mohd Said², Imran Zainal Abidin¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University Malaya Medical Centre, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia, 25200 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.
³ Department of Radiology, University Malaya Medical Centre, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Abstract

Ventricular wall rupture possesses a high mortality rate in patients with acute myocardial infarction. We presented a case of a ninety-year-old gentleman who presented with acute inferolateral myocardial infarction in cardiogenic shock and right ventricular free wall rupture. He was treated conservatively and survived.

Publication types

Case Reports